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5.3 Prohibitions in Islam

Islamic Religious Education · Grade 7 · 8 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Types of drugs commonly abused
  • Causes of drug abuse
  • Effects of drug abuse on the person and society
  • Islamic rationale for the prohibition of drugs
  • Remedies for drug abuse
  • Abstaining from drugs as ibadah

What you will be able to do

  • describe the effects of drug abuse for healthy living
  • examine the rationale behind the prohibition of drugs as a way of fostering positive character
  • explain remedies for drug abuse for a healthy and morally upright society
  • abstain from abusing drugs to earn Allah's pleasure
  • acknowledge the rationale for the prohibition of drugs for the growth of the nation

Key questions

“What causes drug abuse?”

“What are the effects of drug abuse in the society?”

“What are the possible remedies for drug abuse?”

Lessons

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  1. Types of drugs that are abused
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Naming alcohol, bhang, khat, heroin, cocaine and other abuse without advertising them, under 5:90 and Muslim 2003.
  2. What causes drug abuse
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Causes: bad company, curiosity, stress, idleness, availability and lies — doors to close, not excuses that cancel 5:90.
  3. Effects of drug abuse on the person
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Body, mind, ibadah and family harmed: 5:91 blocks dhikr and swalah; the body is an amanah.
  4. Effects of drug abuse in society
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Crime, broken homes, lost youth and a nation that cannot grow: inquiry two on social effects.
  5. Why Islam prohibits drugs
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Rationale from 5:90-91, 2:219, protection of aql, character, swalah and the nation.
  6. Remedies for drug abuse
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Tawbah, musk friends, filled time, family, NACADA or rehab, and a school that talks: inquiry three.
  7. Abstaining from drugs
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Refuse, leave, tell, fill: practising abstinence to please Allah, with a dignified skit.
  8. Prohibition, the nation, and 5.3 review
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Acknowledging why the ban grows Kenya; answering three inquiries; a week of refuse-leave-tell-fill.